In this blog post, we are going to focus on the pre-cursors to MongoDB 3.6 transactions. As already discussed in this series, MongoDB 3.6 has a good number of features in it. Many of them center around sessions (which David Murphy already talked about). Some are highly anticipated by customers, whereas others are very case-specific. We’ll look […]

Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Capacity Planning for Your Data Stores on Friday, December 15, 2017, at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8). In this webinar, Colin uses a ticket sales website that does “normal” events like an M2M concert, but also occasionally also sells tickets to the Harry […]

Get your Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 Super Saver tickets now. The countdown is on for the annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018! The conference takes place in Santa Clara, CA from April 23-25, 2018. The theme is Championing Open Source Databases, and the three-day conference will focus on the latest trends, news […]

Percona’s Technical Director of Quality Assurance Roel Van de Paar shares his findings on the quality of MySQL 8.0.3 RC. On 21 September 2017, our upstream friends at Oracle released MySQL 8.0.3 RC as the first MySQL 8.0 Release Candidate. I tested the MySQL 8.0.3 Release Candidate branch with selected Percona bugfixes applied and built […]

Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents 2017 Year in Review for Open Source Database Software on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8). Register Here 2017 is soon coming to an end, and it’s good to pause and take a look at the past year to see […]

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.18-3.9 on December 11, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible, highly scalable, zero-maintenance downtime database that supports the MongoDB v3.2 protocol and drivers. It extends MongoDB with MongoRocks, Percona Memory Engine and PerconaFT storage engine, as […]

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.38-83.0 on December 8, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. Based on MySQL 5.6.38, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.38-83.0 […]

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. I highly recommend submitting to the CFP for Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 even though it only closes December 22 2017. By the 3rd week of December, i.e. before the CfP closes, it is very […]

In this blog post, we’ll look at MongoDB 3.6 sessions implementation. As I mentioned in my previous post, we are going to look a bit deeper into the new sessions in MongoDB 3.6. You should know that many of the cornerstone features of 3.6 depend directly or indirectly on sessions – things such as “retryable” writes, […]